Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: >> (Is park command normally supported on modern disks? IIRC hdaps people >> had issues with not all disks supporting it?) > > The modern version of parking is called "idle immediate". It may be that > only laptop drives support the "unload" part. But it's definitely not an > ancient and deprecated thing (although calling it "parking" is apparently > old-fashioned :) I'm afraid trying to use that new extension during shutdown would cause far more trouble which would require extensive black/white list at the end. For hdaps, it's okay as the laptops w/ those sensors are supposed to have matching hard drive but using it on generic machines doesn't sound like a sane idea. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
